Getting To The Quick

Nicholas Roerich – Procopius the Righteous Praying Wikipedia

There is a way that life works and there is a way that life does not work.  And there is a way in which every person is sensitive to the way that life works and the way it does not work.  There is also a way in each person that this sensitivity to the way that life works is broken.  We might say that the way that life works is through righteous nurturing, or a righteous practice of love.  The way in which people are most often broken in their sensitivity to knowing the way that life works is in their not recognizing righteousness.  Virtually all people recognize the need of life for nurturing and the need for love.  Many, perhaps most even recognize that love is something that needs to be practiced, not just felt.  However many people, perhaps most people, will disagree with one another at some point about the right way to practice love.  People even disagree about the right way to nurture life.  The reason for all this disagreement is that people are, in one way or another, all broken within their hearts in a manner which makes them unable to perfectly recognize righteousness on their own.  It is possible for people to perfectly recognize righteousness but to do so they need divine assistance.  It was not always so.  Human beings were created able to perfectly recognize and know righteousness, what a righteous practice of love is and what the righteous nurturing of life is.  In the beginning human beings knew what life needed in order to work.

Now they do not.  Not always.  It is for this reason that the God of Israel gave his son to save the world and began this salvation by sending his Spirit into the world to show the world what the way of sin really is, that is to say, what the way that life does not work really is, so that they might also become able to learn what righteousness really is, and, finally, that God has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has raised from the dead.  It is in this way that people are brought into the righteousness and the life of the one whom God raised from the dead.  The Spirit of God brings the word of God to the place in the heart that is broken by sin, that has become insensitive to righteousness, and heals it.  That place of brokenness is a place of great fear and insecurity, a place that is usually guarded and protected well and few things ever get through to it.  However, when the needs of love and life call for the attention of the heart at the place where it is broken by sin, whether the sin of the first human beings or by one’s own sins or that of others, the heart is unable to respond in the right way.  Thus the individual and the life around the individual becomes more damaged.  However, when the Spirit of God brings the word of God, the word of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, into the human heart this process begins to be reversed.  As this process can be seen with the individual, so it will be with corporate Humanity.  There is a heart of corporate Humanity, a spirit of life in the one blood of all.  This spirit of human life God has preserved according to his will and has nurtured and cultivated himself, personally, through the covenant of his word, for the time of ultimate healing.  For that time, God has kept this corporate heart of Humanity beating in Jerusalem.  As we see the individual regenerated and brought into the life of the resurrected suffering Messiah of Israel, so shall it be with Jerusalem, with the corporate heart of Humanity.  For as the waters cover the beds of the oceans, so shall the knowledge of the God of Israel cover the earth.

Why We Must Go On Corporately

Worship of the golden Calf, Oil Painting, 56x67cm, 1962 (WV-Nr.2756), by Margret Hofheinz-Döring via Wikipedia

See the archived post, On The Use of Hebrews 6 for This Paper, to which this post is a continuation.

It is only possible to stand worthy of Mashiach as the Body of Mashiach, that is to say, as Messianic Israel.  As Malkezadek was given tribute by Levi through Abraham so that Levi would be able to preserve the testimony of the firstborn, the testimony of Israel’s corporate redemption through the promise of the firstborn, that is, the seed of the woman, Mashiach, so we also in our generation must overcome our own participation in the sin of the golden calf by confession of the resurrected redeemer of Israel.  This is corporate faith and testimony.  This is the teaching of the Book of Hebrews which we will fully discover when we are ready to go on from the foundation of initial conversion to the level of those able to teach the nations all that the firstborn of Israel were meant to teach them.

>> so it is that it will be in this sense that the Book of Hebrews is read in these studies and in the paper

Let Us Go On

>> which will be written through the use of these studies as well as others like them.

Israel’s Suffering Messiah

Seeking Jerusalem

Jesus/Yeshua/Yehoshua did not separate himself from Israel. For the sake of the world learning the nature of his faithfulness he has endured for a long time all efforts to separate him from Israel. He will not allow these efforts to continue forever. Soon he will make all the world to know that no one can call him Christ/Messiah/Mashiach before the Father who seeks to separate him from Israel. But anyone who has done so who has not known what they were doing will be forgiven.  Zion Mashiach Shalom faith Bible Torah

{{ This is the permanent lead post on my new site, Scent Essence of Jerusalem. I will be posting Key Understandings there in the knowledge of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah. }}